September 27, 2004 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month
Review :: Bush's Brain
Tracy Reed, MB's campaign manager and her husband Josh, and Tom Elko, MB's field director and his fiancee Stephanie Faust came over for supper Friday, and after orzo and shrimp I chased the rabbits upstairs to bed, and we put on a movie. Now this reviewer copy and a second copy came over a month ago, and we never even broke the celophane until Friday night. Elizabeth Trice, campaigning on the Maine Independent Green ballot in the November general election for the same seat MB ran for in the June Democratic primary election, who's campaign website is elizabethtrice.org, and in our kitchen about once a day, brought her partner Stevenson Munroe over for supper about a week earlier. I'd tried to get the owner of The Movies at Exchange Street, Portland's only real movie theater, to show the film without getting a call back, and Stevenson thought he'd be more successful, and I no longer needed two copies ... so ... I only had one copy and one screen to show it on.
Tom teased us that we'd undone his wonderful job of wiring a screen in every room for the boffo Kerry Acceptance Speech Party we had -- before the Swift Boat Adverts, the Zell Miller debacle (quick, for ten points, how do you spell Zell Miller in Portland?), the horrid Chennyisms, and most appropriate of all, the forgeries of unknown provenance, and we settled in with our wine and beer to enjoy the master of the decade -- Karl Rove.
I'm glad we waited, because the faked bug that got Karl's candidate elected governor would have been wasted on me if the forensic document exercise deadending in dirty cut-outs wasn't something I'd been exposed to on the blogs I skim, Duncan's, or blogs I ignore but I hear MB gnashing her teeth over, Marcos typically.
Is Bush's Brain a video worth watching? Yes. We did distract ourselves talking about the campaign we lost and the anacelephic, if not outright suicidal (except that the outcomes for certain actors is better than other actors) free-fall of the Coordinated Campaign, and the low-jinks of MB's primary opponant, but we did enjoy the amazing trajectory of Karl's life from debate club to ... The President's Friend.
The ending isn't on the DVD of course. We hope the end is sometime before January 20th of 2005, but if it was up to the Dems in Maine, the end is a decade or more away. By all means, see the movie, but don't forget that you are part of the cast, and you too must act.
And now a gif from a friend who isn't a squirrel (a squirrel managed to take our power down yesterday morning. it didn't say much, but singed squirrel is hard to miss.)
The face of "janus", to risk repeating myself. We sure don't want this coyote to win the election.
Posted by: Steve Plonk at September 27, 2004 06:40 PM